Musical Madness

Adaptations from this era really changed the game. These squabbling groups can’t save themselves from death or learning some lessons. Up up up to the giants in the sky!

Instead of telling men to repress their emotions to appear stronger we should encourage them to sing incredibly dramatic ballads to process their emotions like in fictional movies. Maybe the world would heal faster. And also it would be very funny.

These are my personal favorites.

ATTENTION NEW TUMBLR USERS: This website is different from twitter and there are actually four (4) things that every blog needs. Go to the woods and fetch the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold

reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

mariah.theis

Sorry for admitting that I listen to musicals do you still think I'm hot

Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince INTO THE WOODS (2014)

The Otter Ferry lime kiln from above and below.

A calm within the storm ⛈️

i'm a sucker for narrators who are like,,, part of the narrative. they're a part of the story. they may or may not be fundemantal to it, but they influence it one way or another.

music and lyrics by stephen sondheim

jesse jesse listen to me you need to go to the woods and bring me back one the cow as white as milk two the cape as red as blood three the hair as yellow as corn four the slipper as pure as gold. jesse